Healthians founder Deepak Sahni steps down

Deepak Sahni, founder of health tech startup Healthians, has stepped down after a decade with the Gurugram-based company.

“After spending 10 years as Founder and CEO of Healthians, I transitioned to the role of Executive Chairman in November 2023 and, over the past year, helped guide the company’s first truly professional management team. For me, Healthians will never be just a company. It has been a mission, a problem worth solving. After scaling it to a valuation of more than Rs 3,000 crore, expanding to over 300 cities, building more than 22 labs, and raising seven rounds of capital without external bankers, we have proven that diagnostics in India can be built at scale, with soul,” Sahni said in a LinkedIn post.

Under Sahni’s leadership, Healthians has raised a total of 75 million dollars in funding to date, with WestBridge, BEENEXT, DG Ventures, and YouWeCan among its lead investors. Sahni owns 6.5 percent of the company.

Going forward, Sahni will focus on backing the next generation of founders through his 100 crore rupees corpus commitment. In his LinkedIn post, he said he plans to work on solving deeper problems in healthcare, support promising founders, and build new ventures with greater clarity and courage.

He added that as of this month, he has stepped away from all formal executive responsibilities and will continue as a shareholder, cheering from the sidelines as the management team and investors take the company forward.

Healthians’ operating revenue increased 8 percent year on year to Rs 263 crore in FY25 from Rs 243 crore in FY24, according to its consolidated financial statements filed with the Registrar of Companies.

The company offers at home diagnostic services across more than 250 cities and claims to have conducted over 10 crore tests to date. Including non operating income of Rs 7 crore, Healthians’ total income grew 7% to Rs 270 crore during the year.

Improved revenue and tighter cost controls helped Healthians reduce its losses sharply by 89% to Rs 5 crore in FY25 from Rs 45 crore in FY24. The firm also reported positive EBITDA of Rs 32 crore in FY25, with an EBITDA margin of 12.17%.